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Edward Burns Quotes

I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: January 29, 1968

Topics

Feel Nobody Group Minority Forgotten

I think there's a need for services that will make it easier for Chinese consumers to spend globally. The Bitcoin network could be an attractive solution.

Think Solution Will Need Attractive

If you can laugh with somebody and relate to somebody, it becomes harder to dehumanize them. I think that most of what we are constantly bombarded with in terms of media leads you to a creation of 'the Other' and a dehumanization of 'the Other,' and it's very much an us-versus-them conversation.

Think Laugh Media You Conversation

I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved occupation, so he didn't have to enlist. My mother was a housewife. She worked in a bank before marrying my father.

Father Mother Born She Bank Days

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

Honesty Loyalty Respect People Look

People are hungry for someone who is real. They are hungry for something that is not the same plastic nonsense that has cause us to have such little respect for our political process and our political officials.

Respect People Political Someone

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Truth Lie Find Little Bitter Us

I'm the kind of guy that jumps at an opportunity.

Opportunity Kind Guy Jumps

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

William S. Burroughs

First Which Came

My grandmother was a classical pianist, so I grew up with Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven. I studied piano as a kid. My musical background and upbringing was very much a mix.

Grandmother Kid Up Piano Background

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

Politics Winning About Sake

The reality of our business is that for every actor who's rolled up his tent and given up and gone home, the next day you hear about some shoe salesman at Macy's who had this audition and now he's Harrison Ford. There's always that carrot out there in our business.

Home Business Day Reality You Shoe

My therapist was like, 'What brings joy to your heart?' And I was like, 'I like to see teeth. I guess maybe I should have been a dentist.'

Tiffany Haddish

Heart Joy Teeth Dentist See Been

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